plz don't post more than once ... On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:26:11PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have seen articles pertaining to > Sendmail with a dynamic ip. i'm quite > new to sendmail, but i am certainly > willing to read about it. neither my > current host or isp provides me with > an smtp address, so i want to make > my own. > > my questions are: > > 1) can i use sendmail as an smtp > server which i could access from > anywhere (not just my lan)?
Yes. Sendmail listens for incommign mail on port 25 - smtp. > 2) could it be configured to send > email for my domain name, even if > the domain was not hosted on my lan? Yes - domain routing. Just look at linuxconf Networking->Sendmail